A near fine square and tight hardcover copy in a very good and tight dustjacket/brodart covered, First Edition. Owner's very small bookstamp appears on front free endpaper. Dustjacket has chips and small pieces missing from top and bottom of dustjacket spine. Tears to the dustjacket and chips and small pieces missing from all four corner folds.

American poet, editor, essayist, translator, whose career spanned nearly 80 years. Kunitz became 10th poet laureate at the age of 95,


During World War II Kunitz was a conscientious objector, but he served three years in the army, largely in North Carolina, where he edited an Army news magazine and wrote for the Air Transport Commant. In 1945 he was discharged with the rank of staff sergeant


In 1944 Kunitz published Passport to the War, which contains one of his most famous poems, 'Father and Son'. In this highly individual collection Kunitz did not court his critics with its boldy imaginative use of language and social and political themes. Like his first book, it did not awake attention of the literary establishment. It was not until 1958 when Kunitz gained acclaim with Selected Poems, which won the Pulitzer Prize.